Women's Track & Field

Friedland blows away the field in winning 60 dash at state meet

Feb 02, 2018

LEWISTON, Maine -- Colby College's Sara Friedland blew away the field in the 60-meter dash and set a new meet record at the Maine State Women's Track and Field Championships on Friday night at Bates College.

Friedland had a time of 7.92 to break the meet record of Colby graduate Annabelle Hicks '14, who had an 8.01 in 2012. Hicks holds the indoor school record in the 60 dash in 7.79. Friedland also had the top time in the preliminary races with an 8.04.

Colby's other win came from the 800 relay team of Rachel Leonard, Margaret Bannon, Taylor Depalo, and Sophie Stokes Cerkvenik. The foursome had a winning time of 1:47.10 to easily beat second place Husson (1:53.39).

The Mules had second-place finishes from Depalo in the 200 dash (26.93) and Margaret Giles in the 600 meters (1:40.70).

Alexa Scher placed third for the Mules in the pole vault (9-6.25) and Emma MacCallum had the same finish in the shot put (36-7).

Julia Rembetsy-Brown had fourth-place finishes in the long jump (16-10.75) and the triple jump (35-3). Stokes Cerkvenik was fourth in the 60 hurdles and Brit Biddle had a fourth in the 800 meters (2:26.42).

The Mules finished in fourth place with a score of 102 in the six-team meet.